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sorry all inclusive edit
Ah, the NW of England....
Yep here in the Midlands it's absolutely biblical. I had to drive through Windermere whilst driving through Ambleside. Most discombobulating
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Went for a wee ride in Grizedale and decided to wear my kayaking dry top and rash vest in a desperate bid to stay dry. The trails were like rivers.
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Very well intentioned edit jaminb, but the point is that it's not actually raining much if at all in the NW of the UK. In order to make your post more betterer it would actually have been better to put NW England ( and add SW Scotland if you wanted to be totally inclusive)
Here in N.W Surrey all is well.
Midwest of GB at best shirly .....
if the top pic is where i think it is it doesn't take much for that bit to get like that.
got soaked working this morning so left ambleside and went home at lunch time and bowness/newby bridge road was fine then, apparently by the end of the day it was chaos.
SE Scotland bloody damp.
The floodworks have been swamped job on alert for not going in tomorrow.
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What chip is best for keeping dry shoulders?
too late for another edit but how about WNW GB (can't use UK due to car sticker boycott and i am not feeling like i am helping with the United right now)
Wetter than an otters pocket in Cockermouth, flood alerts on the Derwent, Greta at Keswick looking lively, some minor roads flooded and double rain (250mm) forecast for the next 24 hours.....safe travels if you're out and about...
Still factually incorrect.
Bone dry in North Yorkshire... well sort of.
Tell me more @bigfoot. Planning on leaving coniston tomorrow, but am worried that bit by Rothay Bridge will be closed by then.
Does that road get closed much?
Also, Newby Bridge.... is that just an issue on the Bridge itself or will it close the A590?
Also seem to remember a bit of the Coniston lake road gets a bit lakey.... eek
Newby bridge itself (and the a590) is usually fine- it’s the stretch from newby bridge to Bowness that will a bit swampy atm
Looks like a grim couple of days ahead. We're currently 20 miles south of the dividing point between totally dry and deluge.
Judging by Generalist's pic, it might at least start washing out some of the sanitised trails in Grizedale!
Rats, booked into Keswick camping club site on Saturday in the caravan, waiting for the cancellation call from the site. Have been evacuated from there in the past, not a pleasant experience. Oh well, Norfolk here we come!
@ reluctantwrinkly
Norfolk will welcome you with open arms.
It’s been lobbing it down in the south lakes today. Current reprieve for a bit at the moment. We’ll see what tomorrow brings
Norfolk will welcome you with open arms.
and all 12 webbed fingers, or was that toes 😜
Tweed valley is currently rather moist. Roads are not too clever so stay safe folks!
There’s that much standing water in North West England folk have started referring to it as the Lake District.
Well I never.
webbed fingers
Don’t knock’em - might come in useful.
Evacuated off the Derwent water club site today. Got told to take awnings down last night. Currently sat up at the Troutbeck site. Very windy and wet but no chance of flooding up here. An otters pocket would have been warmer and more homely these last few days 🥲
Upside is managed blue and red north at Whinlatter with the kids and didn’t drown earlier in the week. Might work Friday now and save days holiday. Sigh.
I live in Cambridge so just a hop over the border for me, have to run the gauntlet through the fens to get there mind you, dangerous country that.😬
Was looking forward to trying my new trail bike out in the lakes, bit overbiked for round here but will have to wait a bit now
Wouldn’t risk it to be honest. We’re heading home to North Yorkshire early. Not worth adding to the problems if things gets worse up here. Kids are amazed how the wind is currently Bumping 1.7 tons of caravan around 😬. Rock Paper Scissors for the poor sole getting the top bunk.
Been in the lakes at Keswick all week and it’s basically been constantly raining all week. Think we managed a mostly dry Tuesday but making up for it today. Abandoned our plans today after an attempt to drive to ambleside. The wife and kids wanted to stay in all afternoon so I took the dog for a wet walk via a few pubs in and around Keswick. Ah well, got to make the best out of any situation.
Currently holidaying in Craobh Haven, 20 odd miles south of Oban. Been very wet all week and the A93 has been closed overnight three nights in a row due to landslide risk? Just overnight afaik but Im eyeing up going across Stirling to reach geordieland on friday instead of a93 and Glasgow traffic.
Tell me more @bigfoot. Planning on leaving coniston tomorrow, but am worried that bit by Rothay Bridge will be closed by then.
Does that road get closed much?
Also, Newby Bridge…. is that just an issue on the Bridge itself or will it close the A590?
Also seem to remember a bit of the Coniston lake road gets a bit lakey…. eek
@thegeneralist that bit could be bad by tomorrow, doesn't get closed often for flooding but it happens, as mentioned its the a592 that gets bad from newby bridge. hawkshead to newby bridge will be bad as well.
i would be tempted to go from coniston to the a590 at greenodd but i haven't used that road after a lot of rain, i think there will be a few places that will flood as well.
a590 should be ok
apparently there is a car stuck in the flood at rothay bridge but still passable( at about 9pm)
@swedishmatt
Could be a good idea to go by Stirling lots of road closures in Glasgow for COP26
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@swedishmatt
Could be a good idea to go by Stirling lots of road closures in Glasgow for COP26
Aye don't come anywhere near glasgow for the next 3 weeks or so. Carnage awaits.
Some pretty intense flooding in Glasgow last night.
COP26 getting disrupted by extreme weather would be somewhat ironical.
Might make a salient point or two, though.
Manchester is weirdly warm and dry today. In fact, so warm that It seems a bit odd for October really.
Sat in a nice warm cottage in Troutbeck at the moment. The garden is a flowing torrent. Be ideal for some white water canoeing. Drove into Windermere yesterday and the a590 was at a stand still. A couple of wet days ahead but the Landcruiser could earn is crust getting us out ;o)
Mostly annoyed to miss the first Troutbeck pumpkin festival. Looked epicly wet down there.
http://derwen****ermarina.co.uk/web-cam/
Never seen Derwent and Coniston Lakes so high
https://www.conistonboatingcentre.co.uk/aboutus/live-webcam
You cant even see the jetties or the beach!
Might make a salient point or two, though.
Sadly the point will be missed and the weather written off as typically Scottish.
Looks like there’s still a fair amount of rain to come. The Derwen****er marina webcam appears to show boats moored peacefully. Thing is they’re all in trailers on hard standing well above the normal lake edge.
Look after each other out there today.
I wonder how THirlmere and Haweswater are doing - was only a couple of weeks ago I was getting texts from UU asking us to reduce water use as the reservoirs were so low
The Derwen****er marina webcam appears to show boats moored peacefully. Thing is they’re all in trailers on hard standing well above the normal lake edge.
That's just on the cusp of getting very expensive. A bit of wind, and/or a few inches more water and they'll be off. The stack of kayaks (canoes?) in the middle may already be on the way.
Our holiday in Grange over Sands is a bit of a washout, we've got wet weather gear, but it's still no fun. I'm going downstairs now to suggest to the missis we sack it off and have a day out from home tomorrow. ☹️
Manchester is weirdly warm and dry
I hoping it stays like this until 5pm 🤔
Manchester is weirdly warm and dry
The sunrise this morning was the weirdest colour. Felt like something out of a dystopian science fiction film
We were meant to be heading to Keswick tomorrow for a few days. We’ve had to cancel it due to some pretty horrendous family news, but it doesn’t look like we’ll be missing much other than potentially being flooded out and watching torrential deluges coming in sideways. I’ve done that enough times up there
Hope everyone stays safe up there. It’s a beautiful part of the world but when the weathers bad, it can be absolutely biblical!
Could be a good idea to go by Stirling lots of road closures in Glasgow for COP26
Got into Glasgow from the riviera this morning much quicker than usual, suspect everyone who can avoid it is doing so.
Never seen Derwent and Coniston Lakes so high
You cant even see the jetties or the beach!
Was our plan to walk around Derwent Water today. We were here last year and had to bail at Lodore as the level was too high to get around the top. The water level was covering the jetties too. Might need to rethink our walk. Despite the wet weather we’ve had a great time and still managed the walks we planned with only our day off walking yesterday being impacted by the weather. A week of rain is bound to take its toll.